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While eating a meal in the hospital, a patient begins to demonstrate difficulty breathing and signs of choking. The nurse realizes that the patient is experiencing which of the following?
1. laryngeal obstruction
2. pulmonary emboli
3. epiglottitis
4. an acute myocardial infarction
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11 years ago
1 -- The most common cause of laryngeal obstruction in adults is ingested meat that lodges in the airway. Risk factors for food aspiration include ingesting large boluses of food and chewing them insufficiently, consuming excess alcohol, and wearing dentures. A foreign body in the larynx causes pain, laryngospasm, dyspnea, and inspiratory stridor. The most common manifestations of laryngeal obstruction are coughing, choking, gagging, obvious difficulty breathing with use of accessory muscles, and inspiratory stridor.
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